cool stuff gary. I bet you must be really sick of that song, after making a reel to it for the last six months eh? Good work any way, I really like the “drum Cam”. So congraduations, and its too bad you could not of graduated with our class, but we still kinda like you.

it was a tough choice choosing a band to animate, and of all bands Primus…

i like the look, the characters are neat and the rendering is quite polished… BUT… the animation is not good. to animate a believable drummer, you need to understand how to play drums… you can clearly see that she’s not playing anything close to what’s being played in the song. the one time you zoom in on her hitting the hi-hat it’s open, and i’m pretty sure she should have been hitting the ride cymbal. then you have your bass player trying to be les claypool, and his hands are hardly moving. he should be playing slap bass, and his hands and fingers should be moving quite fast. i mean, you don’t have to actually have your computer characters actually playing, but you should make it look close.

yup, animation isnt my strong point. i cleared the drumming with one of my good drummer friends, and he said all was cool… so not sure about that. yeah, gene the song is now permanently embeded into my brain… when you’re walking down the street singing your reel over and over, its time to quit

i just want to make sure you don’t think that i don’t like your piece. i enjoy the reel, but its definately hard to sync up animation with a band such as primus (i mean, have you seen les claypool play? sheesh!)

just wanted to post this, because i thought that my above post may have sounded a bit negative.

gary~yo man~
this is mikey~
I really enjoy ur reel a lot. I think I have watched ur reel more than 5 times.
Anyway, GOOD joB~ man~~
I know u worked pretty hard on this.
Good luck on the job hunt man!
we rock!.~